I plop myself down on my bed and grab a pillow.
Pressing it down on my face, I scream obscenities. Most of the words I’ve learned in my youth from the other druggies that had been in our neighborhood. Once, they told me that if I continue saying words like this, my mother will die. Since then, I made it a habit of saying at least five curse words per day. Obviously, it didn’t work.
I gripped the safety handles of the roof of the car as the surroundings became familiar to me.“Markus,” I whisper softly under my breath, my eyes stuck on the road. “You didn’t.” Like
When I had been young, the house had always looked ugly to me.I spent my youth living next to a trailer park. Our house just a few steps away from the dump. It was inside a gated compound filled with the same horrible white houses with the graying picket fences.
It’s a universal truth that children often placed their parents in such high pedestals.When I had been young, I looked up to both my mother and father. It had only been me, Olive, Scarlett, and the twins, Hazel and Clementine then. I was close to the twins, and I never once understood why Olive and Scarlett would often tell me I shouldn’t spend as much time with my parents as I did back then.
“Have you ever had him checked in the hospital?” The words leave my mouth with much more ferocity than I intended. My parents’ eyes widened, surprised I even had it in me to say such things to them. My mother’s ice turned icy, like how it used to back when I had been younger. She scoffs, crossing her arms against her chest, “Look at this place, you think we could afford a hospital visit when we can’t even pay for no damn elect
Markus wasn’t done. Still, he was gently squeezing my hand from underneath the table. Words don’t form in my mouth. Instead, I was simply looking at him. My heart fluttering against my chest. Beating erratically with every word that comes out of his mouth.
“Get out!”My mother was in hysterics, her hands outstretched towards Markus. I could tell she just had her nails done, the tips of her nails were sharpened and dyed a deep red. My father was smarter, he slipped his arms under my mother’s arms and stopped her from hurting us. If she had been an animal, you could tell she was probably foaming at the mouth by this time.“Get out!” She screamed again, her saliva hitting me square in the face. Crinkling my nose, I lift my arm up to wipe it off. Disgusting. “Get out, both of you!”Markus fixed his collar, looking at my mother straight in her eyes.“We would gladly do just that,” He then looked around the room. His eye
Blue was in the same place as he had been a few hours ago.He still had his nose stuck in a book. My eyes widened a fraction once I noticed it just wasn’t any book. It was a book on the Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology. Grinning, I slowly crouch in front of him. If what my sisters said had been correct, then they were absolutely far off. Not that Blue was slow.Everyone was just on average speed that he had no choice but to keep quiet when everything was being processed in his brain in a rapidly fast pace.“Hello,” I say. “Do you remember who I am?”Blue doesn’t even give me any sort of regard. If it had been others who asked, I’m sure they would have been offended or felt like
At least one of us seemed to have enjoyed the surprise.Gray came running outside the house, a huge smile on his face. He had pulled Jade along with him. They both had goofy looks on their faces. Gripped tightly on one of Gray’s hand was the big yellow truck he was playing with moments ago.For some reason, I can’t share the same excitement that was probably building up inside Gray’s body. Wait, no, actually, I knew the reason. Pinching the bridge of my nose, I sighed and clicked my tongue. Forcing myself to look at Markus, I wave my hand towards the truck, “Please tell me that isn’t a dump truck in front of my parent’s house.”He nods eagerly, “I could tell you that’s not a dump truck but then I would be l